LA CRISE DES ROHINGYA, UN AN APRÈS UN MASSACRE PLANIFIÉ

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Published by LA PRESSE on August 25, 2018 Il y a un an aujourd’hui, des combattants de la minorité musulmane des Rohingya ont tué 12 soldats birmans, donnant le prétexte à une campagne de répression qui a forcé plus de 700 000 personnes à fuir vers le Bangladesh voisin. Alors que la majorité de ces survivants s’entassent dans le plus grand camp de réfugiés de la planète, de plus en plus d’indices montrent que les massacres de l’automne dernier n’avaient absolument rien de spontané. UN DOSSIER D’AGNÈS GRUDA LA CRISE DES ROHINGYA, UN AN APRÈS « DES SIMILITUDES FRAPPANTES AVEC CE QUI S’ÉTAIT PASSÉ

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Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to be investigated by the ICC

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Rohingya Genocide Day- 25th of August 2017. Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to be investigated by the ICC By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate In February 2018 I participated in a Nobel Women’s Initiative delegation to Bangladesh. The purpose of our delegation was to visit Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh where over 1 million Rohingya Muslim refugees were living in makeshift camps having fled persecution by Myanmar soldiers. On the delegation was Nobel Peace laureates Shirin Ebadi, Tawakkol Karmen and myself. We met with over 100 Rohingya women who told us their stories of rape and

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Press Release: Remembering Rohingya Genocide on 25 August 2018

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Press Release 14 August 2018 REMEMBERING ROHINGYA GENOCIDE ON 25 AUGUST 2018 Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya and non-Rohingya activists and advocates, are planning to commemorate 25 August 2018 as the “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day one year ago, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Armed Forces launched the largest scale mass killing, rape and arson to date.  Over 300 predominantly Rohingya villages and a few towns in Western Myanmar were targeted.  The official pretext for this operation was the existence of a small band of desperate, young and militant Rohingyas. Rohingya rights activists and researchers have

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India must stand by the Rohingya in their hour of need

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By Tapan Bose | Published by CounterCurrents.Org on August 1, 2018 Rohingya refugees are back in the news again. On Tuesday (July 30) Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home said some of the Rohingya living in India do not have the status of “refugee” but are “illegal migrants” who would be deported once their details have been prepared. Reiterating his earlier position, Rijiju said since they are illegal migrants, they are not entitled to any government facility. Responding to a series of supplementary questions in the Parliament, Rijiju said the government has reports that some of the Rohingyas

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